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3. Students must also make sure their compound and complex sentences are done correctly in their journal.
===4. Once all that is finished, students should go to [|discoverzone.com] and click on "My Mission". Once there, follow the prompts and complete the activities.===

1. How is your goal going???
===2. Speaking of Goals, meet Randy Pausch. He is the author of the New York Times Best Seller book, [|The Last Lecture] and a former well-loved and respected professor at Carnegie Melon University. He made his childhood dreams his life-time goals, and he met each one of them!! Check out his story and the famous speech he gave on meeting your dreams and goals, known as the last lecture - http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3633945===

3. We will be diving back into our "Clear Sentences" unit. Today we will practice writing varied sentences.




Homework: Complete the handout on varied sentences for tomorrow.
===2. Tomorrow we will finish varied sentence writing and review compound and complex sentences. Friday there will be a short assessment on Writing Clear Sentences. It will include all of the items in the unit that are on your note-taking guide (fragments, compound & complex sentences and varied sentences).===